ABBESSES Antonyms

• a male with the same parents as someone else

• (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address

• a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group)

• a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

• used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement

• a clergyman or other person in religious orders

• a Protestant layman who assists the minister

• a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

• someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

• a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

• United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

• someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

• someone new to a field or activity

• a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

• a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion